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Now you can experience all the softness, brilliance, and luxury of European-style hand rolled pastels in these amazing, value-priced sets from Mungyo! New Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels are a sumptuous treat for any pastel artist, and use only the finest pigments and kaolin clay. As they are individually hand rolled, less binder is needed to hold the color together, making for an exceptionally soft pastel ideal for subtle blends, rich color lay down, and lush layering. Only superior pigments with the highest lightfast ratings are used, and all colors are rated AP non-toxic. Gallery Handmade Pastels even match perfectly with Mungyo's line of machine-made Extra-Fine Soft Pastels, working together to create rich layers of softer Handmade over slightly harder Extra-Fine pastels. These convenient sets of Mungyo Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels are the perfect choice for any serious pastel artist, featuring balanced or thematic color selections carefully packed into cardboard or wooden boxes with foam dividers. Pick one up today as an introduction to this spectacular line of handmade pastels, or get one as a wonderful gift for any pastel artist!

Assorted Color Sets – These cardboard box sets are available in balanced selections of 15 or 30 shades, and are the ideal starter set or introduction to Gallery Handmade Pastels!

Landscape and Portrait Sets – Available in sets of 60 in cardboard boxes, or sets of 100 in deluxe hinged wooden boxes, these thematic sets come with an assortment of either landscape or portrait specific colors. Perfect for the serious artist with a subject preference!

Complete Set of 200 – This deluxe set features every color of Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels in a deluxe finished wood box with 2 trays to hold the entire range of colors. The perfect indulgence for any professional pastel artist!

Artist Endorsed

"Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels have approximately the hardness /softness of something between Rembrandt Pastels and Unisons. My overall impression of these pastels was excellent and even more impressive when one considers the value."
- Lisa Ober, professional artist

Rated 5 out of 5 by Lisa_Ober from The quality of each pastel was consistent"The full set of 200 is an excellent starter or base set with a wide variety of color choices packed into a beautiful sturdy and classy box which is perfect for travel. The set that I received was perfectly intact without a single break (I don't like broken new pastels). The colors are nicely arranged and AP non-toxic. Each pastel is about the size of a woman's thumb, very similar to Unison Soft Colour Pastels. For me, the size is perfect.The quality of each pastel was consistent across the range of colors I used. The pigments are pretty rich...at least the blue/green colors that I pulled out for this piece and I assume that is true for the other colors.Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels have approximately the hardness /softness of something between Rembrandt Pastels and Unisons.The gallery's handled very well on UART Sanded Pastel Paper (600 grit) which is my favorite surface so far. I imagine they would be good on any professional pastel surface. My overall impression of these pastels was excellent and even more impressive when one considers the value.

Date published: 2014-03-12

Rated 5 out of 5 by Digiphot2 from Mungyo top the cast of excellent pastelsI'm getting back into Pastel drawing, and seen this set! I bought two and five other boxes of their one inch pastels just to get started. By the way I don't buy pastels by the stick, I get them by the pound! Ha Ha! See image of my recent purchases on Ebay

Date published: 2013-10-20

Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from Great color range, consistent texture.This set of 200 has a marvelous range of colors. All seem to apply smoothly, controlled and consistent. Works with blended and raw strokes with equal ease. If you want a quality range of handmade that are a fair bit less than most other hand-rolled. This is an excellent choice.

Date published: 2013-06-16

Rated 5 out of 5 by TC Artist from Vibrant colors; high qualityI purchased the set of 30 to see if the quality compared to higher priced pastels. The answer is yes! The colors are very vibrant; their shape and application is similar to Unison. I shared them with a number of other pastelists and they were ready to order sets for themselves.

Date published: 2012-05-18

Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from Mungyo Gallery Handmade Soft PastelsLast year I was invited to review the new Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels in a focus group at Jerry's in Raleigh. The labels were peeled off, so we couldn't tell what brand we were using...the Gallery Handmade Soft Pastels were just as strong in pigment, soft, creamy and completely covered the paper as richly as their more costly competitors. They layered and blended beautifully. I highly recommend them as a quality product with a more economical pricetag! Jerry's has done it again...go out and try them today!

Date published: 2012-04-30

Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from A Pleasant SurpriseI bought a set of these after seeing them at a pastel convention. I'll have to admit, I wasn't expecting them to be as good a quality as some other reputable, more expensive brands. But what a pleasant surprise! They glide onto a surface smoothly, are rich and brilliant, and the colors are remarkably unique yet very usable. I highly recommend these pastels.

Date published: 2011-09-10

Rated 4 out of 5 by Anonymous from Really nice pastels for a great price!The handmade pastels from Mungyo are really nice. I would rate them as comparable in texture and softness to Unison pastels. Although they are not as heavily pigmented as the Unisons, the colors are bright and clean and they definitely have the quality of the more expensive pastel lines. Anyone on a budget looking to purchase a full set of pastels would do well with these.